Muhammed Kutay
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3554
Biography
Dr. M. Emin Kutay is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His expertise encompasses a wide range of topics in transportation infrastructure evaluation and management, with a particular focus on asphalt mixture material characterization (both experimental and modeling), pavement analysis and design using mechanistic-empirical methods, pavement preservation techniques, ... and geotechnical engineering.
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Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park 2005
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park 2002
B.S., Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 2001
Awards
Academic Leadership Fellow, Michigan State University (2024-2025)
Transportation Research Board Annual Conference Best Poster Award, from the AKP30 committee. (2023)
William A. Bradley award for Outstanding Faculty Member (from ASCE MSU Student Chapter) (2015)
ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2009)
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Abdollahi, S. F., Vaddy, P., Kutay, M. E. (2024). "Development of a Mechanistic-Empirical Based Highway Cost Allocation Model for Flexible Pavements", Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, DOI: 10.1177/03611981231217743.
Vaddy, P., Islam, T., Kutay, M. E., Vrtis, M., Haider, S. W., Cetin, B., (2023) " Evaluating the Short-term Performance of Spray-on Rejuvenators using a Modified Bending Beam Rheometer Test Methodology", Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198123120903
Farina, A., Kutay, M. E. and Anctil, A. (2023) "Environmental assessment of asphalt mixtures modified with polymer coated rubber from scrap tires", Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 418, 138090, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138090.
Abdollahi, F., Kutay, M. E, Ghazavi, M. (2023) “MatFEA: An efficient finite element framework for analyzing pavement structures with nonlinear unbound materials”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2677, Issue 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198122115024
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